gate marker question...............

[bob1961]

we had a little GTG and had a small informal comp with 6 gates....no start or finish gates though....my question is how do the gates work as to points....does gate one start at the gate marked one or end there....if there is a start gate and the next gate is gate one any points giving between start gate and gate one are scored in gate one then....or does it start with gate one.................bob

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[freetimecrawler]

There should be start and finish gates. Start and finish gates count only for penalty points, and not for progress points. The time starts as the vehicle breaks the plane of the start gate, and stops when the vehicle breaks the plane of the finish gate. Penalties start as the vehicle breaks the plane of the start gate. We would then score all penalty points in the gate 1 box until gate 1 is progressed through. So a 6 gate course, would only really be getting progress for 4 gates, minus 1&6 for start/finish.
Any penaltys from start to, and through gate 1 would be under 1 etc.
Hope that clears it up some for you.

[bob1961]

yup thx ....................bob

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